Affiliation:
1. Einstein Institute of Mathematics , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem , Israel
Abstract
Abstract
Let G be a unimodular locally compact group. We define a property of irreducible unitary G-representations V which we call c-temperedness, and which for the trivial V boils down to Følner’s condition (equivalent to the trivial V being tempered, i.e. to G being amenable). The property of c-temperedness is a-priori stronger than the property of temperedness.
We conjecture that for semisimple groups over local fields temperedness implies c-temperedness. We check the conjecture for a special class of tempered V’s, as well as for all tempered V’s in the cases of
G
:=
SL
2
(
ℝ
)
{G:=\mathrm{SL}_{2}({\mathbb{R}})}
and of
G
=
PGL
2
(
Ω
)
{G=\mathrm{PGL}_{2}(\Omega)}
for a non-Archimedean local field Ω of characteristic 0 and residual characteristic not 2. We also establish a weaker form of the conjecture, involving only K-finite vectors.
In the non-Archimedean case, we give a formula expressing the character of a tempered V as an appropriately-weighted conjugation-average of a matrix coefficient of V, generalising a formula of Harish-Chandra from the case when V is square-integrable.
Subject
Applied Mathematics,General Mathematics